book eighty-five: Boy Swallows Universe

Sunday 13 September 2020 

Much to Jim's and Cherie's chagrin, from Damian's shortlist comes the debut novel from Brisbane's favourite journo, Trent Dalton.  His publisher reckons it has heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, both of which we rated highly, so let's see...
We'll met via Zoom and Tim brought the shortlist.

Ratings (out of 17):

Leigha 14

Monika 12 

Nic 13 

Maree 15

James 13 

Wendy 13 

Tim 16

Average: 13.7